Classic Reprints, September

Ebook edition of an anthology of 19 stories, 10 of them that were original to this book, with an introduction by William Gibson.
• Authors include Harlan Ellison, Larry Niven, Philip Jose Farmer, Lisa Tuttle, Pat Cadigan, Geoff Ryman, and Connie Willis.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides a preview.
• Two other Datlow anthologies have been released as ebooks simultaneously: Off Limits (1996), and Sirens (1998, edited with Terri Windling).

Young adult fantasy novel, first in the “Earthsea” series that has grown to six books, now all reprinted in hardcover with matching covers (from two different publishers).
• It concerns a young man who becomes a wizard’s apprentice.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides a preview.
• The other five titles reissued in hardcover are The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, and Tehanu, from Simon & Schuster/Atheneum, and The Other Wind and Tales from Earthsea, from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Graphia.

SF novel, the author’s first novel from 1999, about forensic detective Phil D’Amato.
• Levinson announces this as the “author’s cut” edition, restoring some of the changes made during copyediting of the original edition.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides a preview.

Collection of 10 linked stories set on the world of Lord Valentine’s Castle (reissued by Roc in May 2012), most of them, including “The Desert of Stolen Dreams” and “The Soul-Painter and the Shapeshifter”, published earlier in magazines.
• Penguin’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides a preview.

SF novel about a man, Vornan-19, who appears naked on the Spanish Stairs in Rome one day in 1998, claiming to be from the far future.
• Wikipedia has this entry with a lengthy plot summary.
• The book was a finalist for the Nebula Awards in 1969.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides a preview.

Second of two volumes, after We the Underpeople (2006), collecting the works of Cordwainer Smith. (The earlier volume included the novel Norstrilia).
• Baen’s site has this description with links to Frederik Pohl’s introduction and several of the stories.
• Wikipedia has an entry on Cordwainer Smith that includes a bibliography, including a number of titles with links to Wikipedia entries themselves.

Two-volume boxed set of nine SF novels first published in the 1950s: Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination, James Blish’s A Case of Conscience, Leigh Brackett’s The Long Tomorrow, Algis Budrys’ Who?, Robert A. Heinlein’s Double Star, Pohl & Kornbluth’s The Space Merchants, Fritz Leiber’s The Big Time, Richard Matheson’s The Shrinking Man, and Theodore Sturgeon’s More Than Human.
• Library of America has subsite http://www.loa.org/sciencefiction/ with appreciations of the novels by William Gibson, Neil Gaiman, Connie Willis, Michael Dirda, and others, plus essays by Wolfe, a gallery of original covers, and a detailed timeline of the decade.
• The two volumes are available separately: Volume 1, Volume 2.

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